This Friday sees the partial launch of the long-delayed Night Tube project in London.

Trains will run all night on the entire length of the Victoria Line and on the Ealing Broadway to Loughton / Hainault section of the Central Line.

There will be a service every 10 minutes on both lines. Day travel cards will continue to be valid until 04.29am.

Services on the Jubilee, Northern and Piccadilly lines will start later in the year.

HFP back on Apple News

The Head for Points channel on Apple News was offline for a week for reasons I never understood. I have now received an apology, amazingly, from Apple:

We apologize for the miscommunication and thank you for your patience. This action was taken against your channel by mistake. We have resolved this issue and have re-enabled your channel, Head For Points.

and we are available again via this link. We should be switching across to News Publisher formatting within the next few days.

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I think it’s only on Friday and Saturday nights it runs all night, so really it is meant for people going out in London (but handy if you have a flight those days). I think the reason it can’t be all week is because they need it closed at least some of the time to do track maintenance.

I’ve registered for Accelerate. If I book a stay now (for post Sept 6th), will it be counted? Or do you actually have to book during the term of the offer?

Terms are ambiguous:

“Number of bonus points listed above will be awarded after the required number of Qualifying Stays have been booked at the required [“Your Rate”] rate and completed by the member between 6th September 2016 and 15th December 2016 (both dates inclusive)”

I wondered this, so emailed them – they confirmed via secure message that I would get the bonus, even though it doesn’t appear as a countdown bar in my online account (as the signup bonus for the gold, and the 10k annual bonus points did, etc.)

I’ve just asked this (via Secure message) and was told that the promotion finished in early August but that if I upgrade and reply to the message the agent will add 20k manually (no mention of any spend requirement) – this seems to go against the understand on HFP over the last few days so perhaps going this way will generate the 20k immediately and then a further 20k automatically after £1k spend!

Will miss this when it goes – was a great little churner and managed to get my wife and I some great stays, especially when it was doubled to 20k. Hoping it’ll be around for at least 6-12 months to get a few more in.

Any chance that given Marriott don’t seem to have a great CC presence here, that they might rebrand this and have a Marriott Amex, a bit like how the Costco one here is still Amex but is no longer so in the US?

OT: the logic behind the new inflight BA starvation diet has now become clear, later this month they will be peddling cheap American confectionary so it’s a penny pinching-revenue raising double whammy. Being ‘British’ Airways you would have thought that they might at least have opted for Cadbury and used the opportunity to showcase some of our homegrown REGIONAL confectionary delights.

Virgin is very good at working with small UK producers. When I was in Crawley last year there was a food fair going on where all the suppliers had set up stands so the staff could try out their products.

Yes, but apart from a few forays into adding bits of all sorts of other American confectionary to the dairy milk bars, cadbury products have largely remained the same as their pre-sale versions as far as I can tell. However, were BA to start dishing out See’s Canies you would not find me complaining!